In fact, the first thing I thought of was a death-seeking dog, but a death-seeking dog never got into someone's house, at least in the few times I came into contact with it.
He begs for things from people, not steals them.
Then who came into my house?
I took a deep breath and prepared to push the door open, while my second uncle held the divination knife tightly and followed me cautiously.
His hand fell on the door and pushed it open!
The moonlight reflected more light in an instant. Beside the wooden table in the front room, there was a man sitting with dirty and tattered clothes. He was holding a roasted and blackened pig's trotter in his hand, and he was gnawing at it with his head down. Got a water ladle.
When we entered the door, he just raised his head, picked up the water gourd and drank some water.
"Er Bangzi?" I recognized him at a glance. Isn't this person Erbangzi? !
"What are you doing here?!" I asked immediately.
Erbangzi looked at me blankly, still looking stupid.
The second uncle's surprise turned into a frown. He walked to the side and lit a candle. The light in the room became much brighter.
But he didn't say anything to disturb me.
Erbangzi and I looked at each other for a few seconds. Erbangzi suddenly grinned and said, "The meat is delicious. Let's go to the village chief's house for a feast together."
With that said, Erbangzi started chewing the pig's trotters again.
I thought Erbangzi was talking about the village chief killing pigs and having a pig-killing feast during the day.
Shaking my head, I said: "Erbangzi, the pig-killing feast is over. These legs just fell apart. There is no place to eat."
Erbangzi's eyes suddenly widened. He suddenly jumped up and stared at me.
His eyes nearly bulged out at that moment, and he said abruptly: "If you have some, eat it tomorrow!"
After saying that, Erbangzi lowered his head and hugged the pig's trotters, like an angry child, hunched his back and rushed out of my house.
I:"……"
Soon, Erbangzi disappeared into the dark night.
"Second uncle...he is the fool in the village, but he was the one who saw the village chief take the big yellow croaker." I explained to my second uncle.
"Don't talk to fools, fools are cruel." The second uncle frowned and said, but his expression was a bit complicated, as if he had something to say but didn't say it.
"Got it." I nodded in response and then went to close the door.
Before going back to the room, my second uncle warned me again, asking me to be careful at night and to be careful of the dog that seeks death again.
My vigilance did not relax at all, and I nodded solemnly, saying that I understood.
We each went back to our rooms, I changed my clothes and lay on the bed.
Originally I wanted to sleep, and I was very tired from being in the water, but I tossed and turned and couldn't sleep.
As soon as I closed my eyes, the two idiots seemed to be wandering in front of me, and I could vaguely hear him talking about how many bowls I needed to eat at the banquet!
It started out as a weak sound, but then turned into a fierce roar.
My eyes widened, I bit the tip of my tongue hard, shook my head hard, and finally woke up a little, and the sound in my ears disappeared.
The room was filled with silence, and my breathing became very heavy, and I took several deep breaths.
Of course, the second idiot couldn't be in my room, but I was sweating on my forehead. This inexplicable psychological pressure had a great impact.
Abruptly, I remembered the look the second uncle gave the second idiot just now, and what he said was a dog seeking death for the life of the person who took away his money and belongings.
My whole body is in a state of excitement!
What the second idiot said was that the village chief would die and wait to eat on the death table, right? !
A fool is a fool, he must have seen something to say this...
I was even more uneasy...but just then, I heard a slight knocking sound.
The sound was very soft, as if someone knocked on the door twice with their fingers, and then quickly stopped the force.
Suddenly, my heart skipped a beat.
When I listened carefully, there was no sound.
I didn't realize that I was hallucinating, so I turned over from the bed with great vigilance.
I cautiously went to the front room and first looked out through the crack in the door.
According to the second uncle's words, he should just refuse the death-seeking dog.
But there's no one outside the door? At least when I looked outside through the crack of the door, I couldn't see anyone.
I frowned.
But suddenly, the whole door opened with a gasp!
It was as if someone had violently pulled him away!
The cold wind suddenly poured into the house, giving me goosebumps all over my body.
Standing on the right side of the door is a middle-aged man in his fifties with thin cheeks. Isn't this man the village chief? ?
I thought a death-seeking dog was knocking on the door, but I didn't expect the village chief to come. This really shocked me.
What was even weirder was the expression of the village chief. His eyes seemed to be dull and dull, and he was looking at me blankly, with his head hanging slightly.
And he also had a rice drawer on hand.
This rice drawer looks familiar to me. Isn't it just the rice drawer that a dog wants to kill?
I can be sure that the village chief took this thing. What does he mean by sending it to me now?
The death-seeking dog, have you looked for him? !
I thought about this clearly in an instant, and suddenly felt a chill in my heart.
"Village Chief, I don't want this, so don't give it to me." My voice was hoarse and I spoke decisively.
His distracted eyes suddenly became more focused, revealing a bit of foolishness.
"Can't throw it away." The village chief said coldly.
At that moment, I felt that his expression seemed to become miserable again.
Looking at his appearance, I feel very pitiful...
Subconsciously, I wanted to speak and warn him again.
But at this moment, a shadow suddenly came close to my back. Before I could react, my face was suddenly covered by a hand.
Before I could utter a single word, a curse came to my ears.
"Death is as far away as you are! Don't hang out in front of my house! People looking for corpses don't care about the ghosts on the ground!"
This scolding was clearly from the second uncle. After he finished cursing, the village chief suddenly stood upright, and he actually raised his head and fell backward...
With a bang, the village chief fell to the ground.
His body seemed to be stiff, and after he fell, he trembled twice like a stick.
This scene really scared me. Is the village chief dead? Are you still holding on to your hatred and come to my door?
"Second uncle...what's going on..." I turned around uneasily, my face turned pale: "We can't let him lie in front of our house..." Second uncle's face was also livid, and his eyes were even more... It's cloudy or sunny.
But he shook his head and said: "He will not lie here, he is here to find a scapegoat."
After saying this, the second uncle spat on the ground, which happened to hit the village chief's chest.
Then he pulled me by the shoulders into the house and closed the door with his backhand.
After the door was closed, the room became even more eerily quiet.
Knowing that the dead village chief was lying outside the door, I was always terrified. And I was not sure, would he really leave?
If you wake up tomorrow and find a dead body lying there, it will be a big deal.
I was about to continue asking my second uncle, but he made a shushing gesture and suddenly lay down in front of the door.
His actions also made me lie down and watch.
In the cold night, a strange scene happened...
The village chief actually moved. He got up from the ground stiffly, then turned around numbly and walked towards the village...
This scene scared me even more.
What's even weirder is that as the moonlight falls, the shadow of the village chief is looming, as if he will disappear at any time...
He was as stiff as a puppet on strings. He walked more than ten meters away, and a hazy mist appeared on the way into the village, making him completely invisible.
"How can a dead person walk..." There was a thin layer of sweat on my forehead.
The second uncle shook his head and said: "He was still short of breath, and he really died when he went down. Now he doesn't want to die, so he wants to kill you instead. Maybe he was sent here by a dog seeking death. If you don't accept it, Things, of course it's fine." My second uncle's explanation gave me a vague understanding.
At this time, the second uncle said again: "Next time, please pay attention. People's shadows are all the same. They are normal people. If there is something wrong with people's shadows, they might be possessed by something. In addition, there is no Those with shadows are dead people, and those with looming shadows are those who were about to die."
"These things are all the experience gained by my uncle who has been around for a long time over the years. Your old man just thinks of you too much. You should know more about them, but you don't know them at all."
After that, the second uncle said nothing else and went back to the room to sleep.
I basically couldn't sleep all night. The old chicken raised by Luo Yin Po was always sitting on the beam. I really couldn't sleep, so I lit a candle and watched the Nine Arts of Yin Sheng.
Just before dawn, I finally fell asleep.
But not long after I slept, I was woken up by the sun again. My head was groggy, but I couldn't fall asleep no matter what.
Moreover, I was extremely flustered and my heart palpitations were very strong.
After I went to the front room, my second uncle wasn't awake yet, so I went to the kitchen to boil some eggs and cut two slices of bacon to eat.
As a result, as soon as I finished eating, a large group of people came outside the door.
When I saw the crowd, my expression immediately changed.
These are all villagers in the village, and judging from their faces, who among them has a good attitude? !
Each and every one of them was ridiculously fierce, and some even had hoes, sickles, and even shovels and axes on hand!
The person walking in front was an old man with a crutch. He had lost a lot of hair on his head and was basically bald.
He was obviously the angriest. His chest was heaving while walking and his lips kept moving.
I stood up, looked at them with great vigilance, subconsciously touched the divination knife on my waist, and called out to my second uncle.
From inside the house came the second uncle whining and talking in his sleep.
"Tie... tie it!" The next moment, the old man arrived in front of my house. He raised his finger and pointed at me. His cloudy eyes were bloodshot and he was stuttering when he spoke.
I know this person. Our Lijia Village is actually quite a small village. In addition to the village chief, there is also an ancestral hall in the village. The stewards of the ancestral hall are all the oldest old people in the village, who are also the former village chiefs.
Even the current village chief has to obey.
Suddenly, the crowd of villagers behind me were about to rush up and tie me up!
My expression changed suddenly, and I swung the divination knife in my hand suddenly, and my voice became hoarse.
"Old village chief... you can't just tie me up just because you want to, right? What's the matter, you have to make it clear?!" I stared at the old man.
The old village chief who was in charge was actually always called Lao Litou.
Old Li Tou's cloudy eyes turned even redder, and he stuttered as he spoke: "People...have killed people...tie, tie you up and hang you..."
